13 Facts About Parinda

Parinda follows Kishan, who works for the underworld chieftain Anna.

Parinda won two National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards, and was India's official selection for the 1990 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but it was not nominated.

Parinda is told that Anna burnt his wife and developed pyrophobia.

Parinda was critically injured and hospitalised for nearly two months, and returned to filming after a year.

Parinda had put diffusion materials, like a piece of white cloth or tracing paper, in front of the light to make it softer and more natural.

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Parinda is credited by several critics for introducing realism into mainstream Hindi cinema and redefining the portrayal of the underworld in films.

Filmmaker Nikkhil Advani credits Parinda for changing his life and inspiring him to become a director.

Director Dibakar Banerjee said in an interview that Parinda was a game-changer for him.

Parinda said the scene involving a dead body being dumped inside a wood machine, Patekar's character and the fire scene in the climax, had an emotional impact on him.

Film-critic Gayatri Gauri of Firstpost wrote, "Parinda was well-crafted, slickly-written and brilliantly executed".

Parinda is noted for the realism it introduced to mainstream Hindi cinema; several critics drew parallels between the violence and the location in the film.

Author and film professor Ranjani Mazumdar in her book Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City wrote that Parinda uses some popular locations such as the Gateway of India, a nearby fountain and the Babulnath temple as "spaces of terror".

Parinda wrote, "These display sites, which are central to the cartography of Bombay, are turned into nodes of violence and death".